A super rare 5 stars from me. It’s been ages since I’ve given anything 5 stars. You just get so jaded, and you really start to discern the good from the great to the “fucking wow!! “. This falls in the latter category. I had a 6ml pour last week while in the UK. A bit of background on this: It’s a piece of British navel history. For hundreds of years, the British navy supplied a daily ration to their sailors. This could be a mixture of any rum from the colonies : Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana, etc. Sort of like an infinity blend over centuries. But this practice was stopped in 1970. The management deemed it high risk to have sailors drunk around billions of pound sterling worth of military equipment. This is where the entrepreneurial brilliant chaps from The Whiskey Exchange came in. They bought the last few barrels of this rum, at which point who knows how old it was , or its components. There’s components from 1800 to 1969 in that blend. Either way… this is freaking old. So: what’s it taste like? One of the top three spirits I’ve had in my life. That good. The aroma is totally different than any rum today, either be it the sweet sugar loaded mass market stuff or the super funky Jamaican ones. It’s slightly smoky, sherry infused Speysider. Taste is amazing. Blackberry, mango, a slight bit of smoke, a wee bit of Jamaican Habitation funk, creme brulee. It’s just amazing. Last I looked , this was $1000… which is outrageous…but put in context, its like having a BTAC , Macallan , or Pappy that has components from 1800. It would be bottled in Lalique crystal, with a price tag well into 5 digits. Top three spirit on my list so far…